In the News
By Jennifer Maddox Parks
Friday, January 8, 2010
"Georgia Trend' magazine has released a list containing what they consider to be the leaders in the state's power structure system — their 12th edition of the "100 Most Influential Georgians."
Three notable representatives of Southwest Georgia made the list.
Joel Wernick, CEO of Phoebe Putney Health System, was included in this year's edition.
"I am honored and humbled by the selection," he said in a phone interview Friday. "I truly feel the acknowledgment ties back to the success of Phoebe Putney."
By J.D. Sumner
Friday, October 30, 2009
ALBANY - Albany's Congressional representative said Thursday that he will continue to push for funding for a new senior center, calling the construction of a new center an important goal for the quality of life of area senior citizens.
Congressman Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, said the James H. Gray Senior Citizens Center and a new planned center on the site of the old Byne Church have received more than $700,000 in federal appropriations since 2004.
By J.D. Sumner
Friday, August 21, 2009
ALBANY - Close to 500 people packed an Albany State University auditorium Thursday as U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, addressed his constituents on controversial health reform ideas.
After his stop in Bainbridge earlier in the day ran over two hours to accommodate questions, Bishop greeted the standing-room-only crowd at ASU with information about the house bill currently in Congress.
By Chuck Williams and Lily Gordon
Thursday, August 20, 2009
U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop told more than 530 people at a town hall meeting he had not made up his mind on how he would vote on health care reform legislation.
“My vote doesn’t belong to Nancy Pelosi and it doesn’t belong to Barack Obama,” the eight-term Georgia Democrat said during sharp questioning from many people with concerns about sweeping reform under consideration in Congress that would overhaul the nation’s health care delivery system. “It belongs to the people in the second district of Georgia.”
By Andrea Castillo
Thursday, August 20, 2009
FORT VALLEY — It is in the American public’s best interest to take action on the health-care reform, U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., said during a town hall meeting held at Fort Valley’s Pettigrew Center on Wednesday afternoon.
The congressman cautioned, however, that such reform must be done in a fiscally responsible way. Bishop said that a massive overhaul of health care in the United States should not be done hastily, and legislators need to do so without adding to the federal deficit.
By Kimberly Page
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Congressman Sanford Bishop says the U.S. military mission in Iraq is going well, and the pace of troops returning home should pick up.
Bishop led a Congressional delegation this week that met with military, political and intelligence leaders in Iraq.
U.S. troops recently handed over much more control to Iraqi forces. Bishop says that mission change is going well.
By J.D. Sumner
Friday, June 05, 2009
ALBANY - An influx of imported Chinese tires may have lead to the closure of Cooper Tire and Rubber Co.'s Albany plant and the loss of 1,400 jobs, according to the testimony of U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, before the U.S. International Trade Commission Wednesday.
Bishop is lobbying for sanctions against the Chinese to help protect domestic manufacturing who he says is suffering.
By Bob Keefe and Mark Davis
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The house was haunted; everyone knew that. A shadowy figure peered from an upstairs window. Screams rent the night. There was that vanishing dog, too.
Young Jimmy, like everyone else in Plains, avoided the creaky old structure just outside of town.
Now, the house that so frightened the boy who’d become president could become a tourist destination.
By Wainwright Jeffers
Friday, April 17, 2009
It was 'Stimulus 101' for hundreds of south Georgia leaders, community organizations, and the public.
They learned how they can get stimulus money to help jump start south Georgia's economy.
Representatives from state and federal agencies were there in Albany Thursday afternoon to answer questions and help get the money flowing.
"We're definitely looking at doing something with our infrastructure to make it better for our locals," said Mayor Jerome Brackins, City of Arlington.
By Jim Wallace
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Second District Congressman Sanford Bishop toured the Mockingbird Drive neighborhood and met with people whose homes have been flooded twice in one week. Bishop says that local officials need to move quickly and apply for stimulus plan money to make flood improvements.